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Category: Social and Emotional Development
Harnessing New Technology to Better Understand the Family Language Environment
11 September 2017
In this PEDAL presentation, Dr Elian Fink talks about the collaborative project Baby Talk, where they used a light-weight wearable pedometer to record infant-caregiver interactions. Play interactions between infant and caregiver have been studied in developmental psychology under many guises, including attachment behaviours, parental sensitivity and scaffolding. Baby Talk aimed to explore the association between […]
PEDAL Seminar: Self-regulation – Foundation skills for children’s healthy development
31 August 2017
Part of the PEDAL Seminar series, in this seminar PEDAL and the Psychology & Education research group at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge come together to discuss the importance of children’s self-regulation skills. This seminar is introduced by Dr David Whitebread, and is presented by Dr Megan McClelland (Hallie Ford Center for Healthy […]
Supporting families with their children’s behaviour: The Healthy Start, Happy Start Study
6 June 2021
Christine O’Farrelly, Hilary Watt, Daphne Babalis, Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Beth Barker, Sarah Byford, Poushali Ganguli, Ellen Grimas, Jane Iles, Holly Mattock, Julia McGinley, Charlotte Phillips, Rachael Ryan, Stephen Scott, Jessica Smith, Alan Stein, Eloise Stevens, Marinus van IJzendoorn, Jane Warwick, Paul Ramchandani.
The protective effects of peer play against mental health problems
27 July 2022
Yiran Vicky Zhao, Jenny Gibson
Coping with Changes: Supporting social and emotional learning in early childhood
6 April 2021
Natalie Kirby, Elizabeth Byrne, and Paul Ramchandani
Links between children’s “aggressive” pretend play and real-life aggression
6 June 2020
Zhen Rao, Elian Fink, and Jenny Gibson
Finding out more about our work in the PEDAL Centre…
6 July 2019
By 2019, PEDAL had been running for four years. This journal article draws together several of our projects which focus on 'measuring play'.